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S2E12: History and myth always live together: a conversation with Wendy Doniger

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I've Always Been Interested in Masquerade

The gita is the book in which god persuades algeno to go to war and kill his friends and relations. It's a rebellion against the perpetuation of wrong ideas about what hinduism is all about. All the wars that are fought for religions make me mad too. And i've always been interested in the ways that human beings find out who they are by pretending to be somebody else. The disguise is the reality, and the reality of the disguise.

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